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The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.

The single most monstrous mistake of the Bush years—the confusion of military with economic power—has been set in stone.

Forty years after food activism took off around the globe, corporatism is stronger than ever.  But so is the grassroots push for control over our work, land, and seeds.

As Zambia’s experience shows, solving hunger is not just about growing more food.

Seeking “food sovereignty,” Hugo Chávez puts oil wealth toward a local, sustainable food system.

Why is it that shelters known to be toxic are acceptable for Haitians but not Americans?

Activists are risking their lives in the fight against US and Canadian mining companies.

Structurally unsafe and laced with formaldehyde, the "hurricane-proof" classroom trailers installed by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti came from the same company being sued for sickening Hurricane Katrina victims.

What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible to the American public? Would it bring the fighting to a halt more quickly if we could see hundreds of thousands of tombstones, military and civilian, spreading hill after hill, field after field, across our landscape?

Should the program target hunger and obesity by promoting consumption of fruits and veggies?